Have Your Cake and Charge It Too: A Pedal-Powered Laptop Desk
Even with all the benefits of modern, everyday technology, it is certainly not making us any healthier. In fact, your heart really hates your...
Superconductor Levitation, “Kinda Fun,” and Useful? [Video]
Aside from use in the LHC superconductors have application in the real world. After all, no one really needs a hadron collider in their...
Dallas Implements Mandatory Green Building Standards, Paves Way for Rest of US
Dallas, Texas… Who would have thought Dallas would be on its way to becoming one of the greenest cities in the United States?
Surprisingly, green...
PNNL Fungus Study Could Speed up Biofuels Production
In theory, biofuels programs could gives us a ready supply of carbon-neutral fuels for use in everyday applications, but the process is expensive and...
Passivhaus Concept Changing How Homes are Built
Passivhaus, the one and only internationally recognized concept solely for its energy saving performance, has taken over the property market, as energy bills continue...
Does Daylight Saving Time Really Cut Down On Our Energy Bills?
For most states in the U.S., except Hawaii and Arizona, daylight saving time (DST) was officially over this weekend. The clocks went one hour...
Can Coal-Burning Plants Burn Wood to Reduce CO2 Emissions?
Coal-burning adds to carbon dioxide emissions at an astonishing rate, releasing carbon dioxide that was sequestered millions of years ago.
Coal-burning also releases a lot...
Google’s Motorola Subdivision Develops an Open Hardware Platform for Modular Smartphones
On Monday, Motorola unveiled Project Ara, a hardware platform that will let consumers build their own smartphones by snapping modular parts into a frame....
New Low Cost, Low Energy Water Treatment Plant Engineered By UK Scientists
A team from the University of Exeter designed and built a pilot water treatment plant, specifically engineered to remove contamination from waste water from...
Panasonic’s New Solar Powered Lantern Addresses the Poor, Replaces Kerosene Lamps
The latest technology of giant gadget maker Panasonic is the so-called Solar LED Lantern, a gadget that not only provides light and can charge phones, but...
